  
Tools for Implementation
The
Big Picture Company designs break-through
public schools, researches and replicates new
models for education, trains educators to serve
as leaders in their schools and communities, and
actively engages the public as participants and
decision makers in the education of our youth.
See their The
New Urban High School: A Practitioner’s
Guide, including guidelines for project-based
learning, work-based learning, activities for
teachers and integrated
curriculum development, and
their Materials
Section that includes the Curriculum Books:
Learning Through Internship.
Buck
Institute for Education (BIE) is
a non-profit research and evaluation organization
dedicated to improving schools by advancing knowledge
about the practice of teaching and the process
of learning. Located in Northern California, the
Institute provides materials, training and technical
assistance on project-based
learning, problem-based learning
with a special focus on economics, and internships.
See their downloadable material on Project
Based Learning, Teacher’s
Manual for Problem-Based Economics and Buck
Institute Handbooks for Internship (employer,
educator and student handbooks on internships).
California
Careers, a site sponsored by the
California Career Resource Network (CalCRN), provides
information, resources and tools for career exploration
and development. Includes career
assessment tools, interest and personality inventories,
and
labor market and occupational information.
The downloadable California
Career Planning Guide, geared to first time
career seekers, includes career interest surveys,
and information on goal setting, resumes, interviewing,
and links to many other sites.
California
Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office
Statewide
Committee for Work-based Learning and Employment
Services the site includes tools and resources
for work-based
learning for high school
and community college educators.
California
STC Clearinghouse is California’s
clearinghouse for STC
tools and resources on all
subjects, for all educators and other stakeholders.
Career
Academy Support Network (CASN) housed
at UC Berkeley, offers support to career
academies across the nation.
See the Forms
Bank (a series of customizable templates in
Word 97 to facilitate community and employer
partnerships), Career
Academy Self Assessment Guide, Scheduling
Guide (for block scheduling), Curriculum
Integration Report: Action Projects (available
from the publisher), and Internship
Handbook.
Competency
Profiles from the California
Department of Education Home Economics Careers
and Technology has resources to evaluate students
by industry
standards. Profiles are available
in Consumer and Family Studies, Child Development
and Education, Consumer Services, Fashion Design,
Manufacturing & Merchandising, Food Science,
Dietetics & Nutrition, Food Service &
Hospitality, Interior Design, and Furnishings
& Manufacturing.
The
Gateway to Educational Materials
is a searchable website sponsored by the Department
of Education. It provides educators with quick
and easy access to thousands of educational
resources found on various
federal, state, university, non-profit, and commercial
Internet sites.
George
Lucas Education Foundation is a clearinghouse
for information, resources and best practices
on integrating project
based learning and technology
into the classroom.
Groundhog
Job Shadow Day see the downloadable
How-to-Kit,
a step by step guide to plan and implement job
shadowing.
Jobs
for the Future has many resources
and publications available in the publications
and products section of its website. For
community-connected
and work-based learning,
standards
and assessments, see downloadable
Connected
Learning Communities – A Toolkit for Reinventing
High School. For policy guidance, see
What’s
Next for School-to-Career Report, a summary
of the progress of school-to-career
to date and recommendations for strategies to
improve and sustain state and community school-to
career efforts. For project-based
learning see Using
Real-World Projects to Help Students Meet Standards
in Education and the Workplace.
Labor
Market Information is a website of
the Employment Development Department that provides
information on job demand, salaries and unemployment.
Of particular interest is Labor
Market Information for Education/Schools,
including information and resources for guiding
students through career
exploration.
Manpower
Demonstration Research Corporation
is a for-profit research
and evaluation firm. See Getting
Connected – A Resource Directory for Career
Academies, developed in partnership with
CASN
the directory lists guides and handbooks, articles,
documents for purchase, resources available upon
request, newsletters and journals, evaluations and
research, websites and additional funding all with
direct link, and the School-to-Work
Transition Project, a collection of materials
for sale based on the project.
MPR
Associates is an educational research
and evaluation firm that
offers publications and technical assistance.
See their Getting
to Work guide on Integrated Curriculum, offering
worksheets and instruction for the implementation
and assessment of integrated curriculum. Also
included in Getting to Work are modules on connecting
learning with work, learning experiences, student
assessment and cross-cutting issues such as staff
development, staffing, scheduling, team building,
relationships with workplace partners, parent
involvement, addressing diversity and equity,
and student entrance and exit issues.
National
Academy Foundation supports a national
network of career
academies centered around
three themes finance, travel & tourism, and
information technology. Its resource
center has resources and tools applicable
to any career theme. See Academy
Planning Guide, a step by step guide to planning,
starting and funding a NAF academy, and Curriculum
Samples, offered in Finance, Hospitality &
Tourism and Information Technology.
National
Career Academy Coalition (NCAC),
is a coalition of schools, teachers, students,
individuals and business that support career
academies. See their Career
Academy Toolkit, which contains an action
plan and timeline.
New
Ways to Work’s downloadable
Getting
Connected to School-to-Career, funded by the
California Governor's School-to-Career
Advisory Council's Employer and Labor Involvement
Committee, is a comprehensive work-based
learning toolkit, for employers,
labor organizations and educators. It contains
as resources, tools and best practices for employers,
labor organizations and educators.
Northwest
Regional Educational Laboratory NWREL
is one of ten Regional Educational Laboratories.
Its national specialty is Re-engineering
Schools for Improvement.
See the School
Improvement Research Series – Integrated
Curriculum.
Standards
for Industrial and Technology Education
from Exploring
Technology Association.
University of California a-g Interactive Guide
assists high school educators in designing courses
that meet the UC
a-g requirements. Sample
courses are provided by both content area and
career pathway theme.
Work-Based
Learning Resource Center has best
practices and resources for work-based
and school-based learning.
WorkSmart
is a state website that offers information on
entry to mid-level jobs and provides tips on resumes,
job interviews and job seeking.
WWW
4 Teachers is an online space to
integrate technology into their curriculum. See
RubiStar
(curriculum
rubrics), Casa
Notes (student note templates in English and
Spanish) and Project
Based Learning (materials in English and Spanish).
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Standards
and Assessment
Assessments
in Career Education (ACE) is an exam
given by the California Department of Education
designed to recognize students who demonstrate
outstanding
achievement on rigorous examinations
in Agriculture, Computer Science and Information
Systems, Health Care, Food Services and Hospitality,
and Technology.
California
Department of Education see Academic
and Career Integration Unit, Content
Standards, Challenge
Career Standards, (non-board approved standards
in the areas of Foreign Language, Health Education,
Physical Education, Service Learning and Applied
Learning. Select the Career
Preparation Overview for standards in Agriculture
Education, Business Education, Industrial Technology
Education, Health Careers Education and Home Economics.
The Aiming
High Toolkit provides tools, guides, and models
for instituting standards-based school reform.
Institute
for Workforce Education (IWE) designs
and delivers custom-tailored staff development
to meet the needs of business, education, and
community partnerships. It promotes workforce
education for schools and communities through
professional
development, technical assistance
and training.
They promote workforce education for schools and
communities through professional development,
technical assistance and training. See Applied
Academics Competencies to Show-Me Standards and
SCANS Competencies as an example of the State
of Missouri’s efforts to align SCANS Competencies
to state Standards..
Jobs
for the Future has many resources
and publications available in the publications
and products section of their website. For
community-connected
and work-based learning,
standards
and assessments, see downloadable
Connected
Learning Communities – A Toolkit for Reinventing
High School. For policy guidance, see
What’s
Next for School-to-Career Report, a summary
of the progress of school-to-career
to date and recommendations for strategies to
improve and sustain state and community school-to
career efforts. For project-based learning see
Using
Real-World Projects to Help Students Meet Standards
in Education and the Workplace.
Massachusetts
School to Career Website See their
Work-based
Learning Plan and Work-based
Learning Tool Kit both documents include discussions
on standards.
Policy
Guidance
Career
Academy Support Network (CASN) is
housed at UC Berkeley and offers support to career
academies across the nation.
See the Forms
Bank (a series of customizable templates in
Word 97 to facilitate community and employer partnerships),
Career
Academy Self Assessment Guide, Scheduling
Guide (for block scheduling), Curriculum
Integration Report: Action Projects (available
from the publisher), and Internship
Handbook.
Jobs
for the Future has many resources
and publications available in the publications
and products section of their website. For
community-connected
and work-based learning,
standards and assessments, see downloadable Connected
Learning Communities – A Toolkit for Reinventing
High School. For policy
guidance, see What’s
Next for School-to-Career Report, a summary
of the progress of school-to-career
to date and recommendations for strategies to
improve and sustain state and community school-to
career efforts. For project-based learning see
Using
Real-World Projects to Help Students Meet Standards
in Education and the Workplace.
Looking
Forward: School-to-Work Principles and Strategies
for Sustainability archived at the
International
Career Development Library.
School-to-Work:
Making a Difference in Education
archived at the Institute
for Education and the Economy at Columbia University.
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